[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

[Edmund von der Burg]

2010/3/24 Damian Conway <damian at conway.org>:
> Chris is correct that I rarely ever allow my talks to be recorded or uploaded.
> And right about the reason too. Information may well want to be free, but it
> therefore also wants my family to starve.
>
> However...
>
> In this particular case, because James and Paul asked most politely, and
> because I certainly don't want James to feel eviserated, and because so
> many individuals from London.pm have been so very generous in supporting
> me over so many years, and because NO-ONE IS *EVER* GOING TO UPLOAD THE
> RECORDING TO YOUTUBE OR VIMEO OR ANY OTHER PUBLIC REPOSITORY but instead
> will quietly pass it around only amongst themselves, and because as a
> community we really wouldn't want this particular talk to publicly
> represent modern Perl (any more than we'd want SelfGOL to), then in this
> particular case I'm happy to grant permission for this talk to be recorded and
> shared discreetly amongst the local members of London.pm.

Perhaps if we used some DRM.

I believe that there is a technology called 'VHS' that offers
reasonable quality but severely limits distribution.

Only those with a penchant for old hardware and hoarding would be able
to view it - which for london.pm should not be a problem :)

Cheers,
  Edmund.

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